Arizona Javelina

AZ Leisure ^ | Staff Writers

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

[packagingguy]

I think they are distant relatives of deer, not old world pigs.

https://www.desertmuseum.org/kids/facts/print.php?animal=Javelina

[Blueflag]

But are they good eating?

[Bob434]

“They” claim they are. But I suppose that if they are like wild hogs ya gotta cook thoroughly to avoid trichenosis which is still in the wild hogs, but mostly,eradicated in domestic. (”They” claim that you can cook domestic pork to 145 or so now- not sure I wanna though)

[AZJeep]

Yes, if you make sure, you remove the musk gland!

[Tucsonican]

You’ve got to be careful dressing them but they make good sausage. Not enough juice for the squeeze as far as I’m concerned but definitely edible.

[Blueflag]

165 minimum for me.

The hogs we shoot (Georgia) end up as hams, sausage grind and BBQs, all higher temp cooks.

[AZJeep]

Javelina is actually an invasive specie.
Except, they they were not introduced by people, they just invited themselves here from South America.
Kind of illegal aliens.

[hinckley buzzard]

Pretty good barbecue, if fixed right.

[Blueflag]

Here in GA, we generally only butcher the feral hogs that are ~250 pounds or less. In fact 200# or less are preferred. Better flavor *AND* two people can move the carcass.

We honestly leave the bigger carcasses for nature to recycle, which happens quickly, Even the bones are gone.

[Bob434]

Me too- some habits are just hard to break.

I did sous vide cooking for awhile, and with that, food safety is a product of “time+temperature”, meaning that if you really wanted to, you could cook chicken to say 125, but it would have to be kept at 125 for say 30 minutes (soemthing you can do with sous vide coo,ing), and then it’s safe (not sure why someone would want to eat chicken that raw, but to each their own I guess)

I never could bring myself to try even 145 degree chicken.

[Red Badger]

If they taste like pork then ....................

[Dr. Sivana]

My wife saw a javalina behind the Motel 6 in Tempe, AZ (very urban area) when she was taking her small dog out to relieve herself. Fortunately, the dog didn’t know enough to be afraid.

[Red Badger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVw_MRMsRsM

[wildcard_redneck]

Javalinas are smaller than pigs but they are no joke. They have big sharp tusks that can tear you up real fast and, if they're cornered, they will attack. People in Phoenix have had their dogs mauled quite frequently and my own dog was one of them. I was in the city park with my dog off the leash (my fault) to get a bit of exercise and she tore into a grove of Mesquite chasing after javelinas and the javelinas gave her a good lesson by tearing a 4 inch would on her side and just missing her jugular vein

[FreedomPoster]

I imagine you’d have a wake of turkey vultures in no time.

[OKSooner]

Nope. Cook pork and fowl "all the way done", just like mom did. I once ordered some pork tenderloin at at place... it came out vivid pink in the middle, I would have called it medium if it had been beef.

No thanks... Cook it all the way through to 170 please, at least...

[mistfree]

When is open season and what’s the bag limit?

[Beowulf9]

I live on the dividing line between Phoenix and Scottsdale. Total city here. Completely developed land with housing developements every inch but just 2 miles straight up from me is Camelback Mountain and up there the yards are bigger, spaced apart. Naturally there is an area around the mountain that is all wild and has wildlife.

So my husband coming home from work sees coming down the street away from the Camelback mountain area on the built up side of the road, in single file a mother Javelina and trailing behind her in a row 4 little baby javalinas.

Was very cute he said, but surprised to see them down here among the homes. They evidently were heading to somebody’s lawn and the sprinkler system, flowers, grass, is my guess. It’s not desert south of the mountain.